Friends rally round for Jadi’s appeal
Friends, family and businesses are rallying round to help raise £100,000 for vital treatment for a 30-year-old woman whose breast cancer has spread to her brain, bones, liver and lungs.
Jadi Best, 30, of Bingham, was diagnosed with breast cancer eight years ago. She had chemotherapy to shrink two tumours before an operation to remove them.
It was followed by more chemotherapy and radiotherapy and regular check-ups.
Doctors told her there was nothing to suggest the cancer had spread and advised her to get on with her life.
She decided to follow her dream of being a florist and, after completing a two-year course, worked at Zinnia in Bingham Market Place.
Two years ago she went on holiday to Turkey and noticed a chest problem.
On her return she had a full body scan, which revealed she had secondary breast cancer that was now in her liver and lungs.
She was diagnosed with stage four incurable cancer.
More recently, and unexpectedly, it spread again, this time to her brain.
Jadi has adopted a positive attitude to her condition.
“I could spend my time being miserable but I decided to deal with it head on,” she said.
“My cancer is aggressive and unwilling to behave.”
Last year she was given a new trial drug, which stabilised her condition for six months, and had ten sessions of whole brain chemotherapy.
In June, a CT scan showed her cancer had progressed in all areas, especially in her lungs. She had fluid around her heart that had to be drained.
Jadi said her treatment at Nottingham City Hospital had been phenomenal, but she had reached the stage where she had just two chemotherapies left to try on the NHS.
“My treatment options are running out and time is of the essence,” she said.
As a result, she has looking at the possibility of being referred to another specialist cancer hospital and paying for new treatments privately.
“Perhaps I may stand a chance of a longer lifespan with my family, my husband, Charlie, and dogs, which would be my dream,” said Jadi.
“I feel well in myself and I am in the right mind set to take more treatment. I have always been a very positive person and I am not ready to give up the fight yet.”
Her friends have been joined by businesses in trying to raise £100,000 towards treatment, although she could need more.
Tom Selby, of J. T. Selby Heating Plumbing And Gas, of Bingham, a friend since schooldays, is keen to do what he can and has set himself a £5,000 target.
“I was completely shocked that something like this can happen to someone you know,” he said.
He and plumber friends will offer 100 boiler services for £50 each with all the money going to Jadi’s appeal.
He said that as well as helping Jadi, the aim was to help keep people gas safe.
The property must be in a NG postcode and privately owned.
He will be joined by apprentice Jacob Hoyes; Martin Shelton, of Bingham; Marcus Bull, of Arnold; and helped by Jonathon Hallam, of Heroes Of Heat.
Anybody wanting to book a service should call 07854 117398.
Others helping with the fundraising are Amy Pownall, of Lash and Co, East Bridgford; Michelle Dixon, of Hurley’s dog grooming, West Bridgford; and Fran Bloor and Lyn Tacey, of The Little Hair Room, Bingham.
Donations can be made at www.gofundme.com/with-hope-to-find-a-new-treatment